EnTraCT – Enhancing Transversal Competences Toolbox for Cultural Managers Erasmus Project

Project Title

EnTraCT – Enhancing Transversal Competences Toolbox for Cultural Managers

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships addressing more than one field

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: Creativity and culture; International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Key Competences (incl. mathematics and literacy) – basic skills

Project Summary

The project „EnTraCT – Enhancing Transversal Competences Toolbox for Cultural Managers” was targeted at the development of skills and transversal competences of people involved in the cultural organizations, dealing with cultural non-formal and informal education (with a special stress on music education) and organization of different cultural events (festivals, choral competitions, workshops, concerts, etc.).
Cultural events influences urban development and the cultural sector plays nowadays a significant role in creating new jobs. The cultural tourism is a special opportunity for the development of many regions, however badly organized and managed cultural events can pose a threat to a protected cultural heritage: the challenge is to find the best way of strengthening cultural infrastructure and increasing the attractiveness of regions and attention to preservation of cultural heritage, to find a proposition that will distinguish its products against the hundreds of other similar proposals.
This Starategic Partnership, thanks to its international dimension brings an essential added value in development of methodology to enhance the cultural managers‘ key competences , especially :
• language competences (mediation, intercultuaral understanding and development of all the four language skills)
• digital competences (critical use of Internet and Social Media, including the use of vitual workgroups)
• social competences (conceptual thinking, concrete organization, reliability, developing others, flexibility, freedom from prejudice, human awareness, handling stress, personal commitment, quality orientation, setting potential problem, self confidence, self direction, self management, sense of belonging, etc.)
• sense of initiative and enterpreneurship.
The partnership involved 4 non-governmental organizations from different countries (Poland as coordinator, Italy, Greece and Turkey. All the organizations are involved in organization of educational activities and cultural events. They cooperate with freelance cultural managers, trainers and volunteers. In the frame of the project, the participanting organizations had the opportunity to compare the approaches to the cultural issues in each country , inspire each other , search to adapt new schemes to the local needs and capacity. The members of the partnership analyzed the needs for cultural events in their cities and local communities along with the possibilities of their realisation. The international dimension of this project enabled to look at the problem from the different cultural point of vue, develop a common methodology and resources as well as develop projects of cultural events for the future perspective.
The issues that were tackled during the project’s lifetime:
• cultural sector in Europe in XXI century
• cultural manager‘s competences for future (special stress on transversal competences)
• music events in public space
• possibilities of innovation in the sector of artistic events
• network and aliances building
• audience development
• cultural tourism as a special opportunity for the development of many region
• role of the cultural sector in creating new jobs
• multi-dimensional effect of the organization of cultural events
• validation of non-formal learning in the field of the cultural management
The Partnership produced two open educational resources:
1) The EnTraCT Toolbox for Cultural Managers collecting:
• list of transversal competences essential for cultural managers along with their description and gathered testimonials of project participants;
• links to online free resources with comments in order to indicate new learning pathways, programmes, procedures to validate non-formal learning and tips how to enhance the described competences;
• educational video with materials from transnational training events
2) Research report – an analyse of needs and potential of each partner’s city and local communities including:
• possibilities to improve the existing events;
• needs and possibilities of organizing a new local or/and international cultural event (inluding cyclic event) taking account of the intercultural issues, sustainable development of the region and preservation of the European cultural heritage;
• assessment of risks
Thanks to the training activities the participating organization enhanced their potential, gained new experience and new contacts for networking with other organizations, prepared ideas and drafts for future cultural projects and cooperation.
The participants enriched their knowledge and capacity to search for customized open educational resources, enriched their managerial, language and intercultural competences, enhanced and tested their skills in practice during the transnational activities (elements of work-based training) They learned how to certify the acquired competences by preparing the documents of Europass Mobility and Europass Language Passport.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 58117 Eur

Project Coordinator

Fulltura – Stowarzyszenie Form Twórczych & Country: PL

Project Partners

• Gaziantep Egitim ve Genclik Dernegi
• INSIEME VOCALE VOX CORDIS ONLUS
• Choral Society Armonia of Preveza